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Albert Frey’s Desert Modernism Had a Sense of Humor

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Courtesy Palm Springs Art Museum The whole idea of a giant boulder intruding into the house is, I suppose, a tell that this is no ordinary house. Frey, known as the founding father of desert modernism, pictured in front of Frey House I, his first Palm Springs residence, completed in 1940. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2004.R.10).

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IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art was the most significant building of 2008

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Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha , Qatar, by IM Pei , the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This blending of tradition and modernity often termed neo-vernacular defined the later era of Pei's career. Did we get it right? Let us know in the comments.

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Art deco muralist Hildreth Meière was "forgotten in plain sight"

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Our final Art Deco Centenary designer profile spotlights Hildreth Meire, a pioneering muralist who left her indelible mark on buildings including New York's Radio City Music Hall, but whose legacy was eclipsed by her better-known male contemporaries. Mural painting has a history of being undervalued," wrote academic Lydia Hamlett in 2020.

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Yoshio Taniguchi, Architect Behind MoMA Redesign, Passes Away at 87

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wikimedia | MoMa Extension Yoshio Taniguchi , the renowned architect behind the redesign of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and other celebrated cultural landmarks , has passed away, at the age of 87 due to pneumonia. Read more

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Ten notable projects by 2025 Royal Gold Medal-winner SANAA

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Among the studio's key projects are the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, which is composed of a low-lying circular structure wrapped with glass, and the stepped Sydney Modern gallery in Australia. Alongside its central art galleries, it hosts public spaces including a library, lecture hall and children's workshop.

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SANAA wins 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medal

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Above: one of the studio's first major projects was the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. The studio completed the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2007. More recently, it created the Bocconi University New Urban Campus in Italy in 2021 and the Sydney Modern extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2022.

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"Brooklyn needed the Brooklyn Tower"

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Since 2004, when rezoning allowed high-rise construction along a mile-long stretch of Flatbush Avenue formerly occupied by gas stations and tire shops, 10 buildings over 50 stories tall have sprung up, with nearly two dozen others at 30-plus. million square feet of retail to Downtown Brooklyn since 2004. The photo is by Pavel Bendov.

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